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This is one of the only pricing games that is NOT concealed from the audience, probably because it takes up the entire stage (save the turntable). Also, Bob Barker enters from the audience whenever this game is played nowadays. This game has more expensive prizes than any other pricing game--in fact, most of the big prizes are worth much more than the showcases at the end of the show--very often more than both showcases combined! The prizes nowadays range from about $35,000 to $70,000! There're 3 prizes in this game: one has 3 digits in it's price, one has 4 digits in its price, and the last has 5 digits in its price! At the beginning of the Golden Road is a grocery item under $0.99. One of these two digits is the hundreds digit in the 3-digit prize. If the contestant gets this right, s/he walks down the Golden Road to the 4-digit prize. Again the hundreds digit is missing from this price, and the contestant must use one of the digits from the price of the 3-digit prize for this missing digit. If the contestant gets this price right, s/he walks all the way to the end of the Golden Road, where the 5-digit prize is. Again, the hundreds digit is missing from this price, and the contestant must use one of the digits from the 4-digit prize to fill it. If s/he is correct, s/he is one of the all-time big Price is Right winners. This is the only pricing game before the 1990's that ALWAYS used 5-digit prizes (though they usually started with a 1, but most cars then were not even $5000). |
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I wish I knew.... Next to Temptation, this is the hardest pricing game. There're only a few hints I can give. First, make sure the number you select to fill in for the missing digit isn't already in the price. The 3-digit and 4-digit prizes don't repeat digits. Unfortunately, this very often will not hold true for the 5-digit prizes. For those, all I can say is don't pick zero. However, I've noticed the missing digit tends to be 2 a lot (not usually, but a lot), so if that's a choice, you may want to try that... |
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